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Diathermy (medicine) and noctambulist (iou)


Diathermy (medicine)


diathermy
<procedure, surgery> The heating of the body tissues due to their resistance to the passage of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation, electric currents or ultrasonic waves. In medical diathermy (thermopenetration) the tissues are warmed but not damaged, in surgical diathermy (electrocoagulation) tissue is destroyed.

Origin: Gr. Therm = heat


noctambulist (iou)



noctambulist noun. M18.
[from Latin noct-, nox night + ambulare to walk + -IST.]
A person who walks or moves about at night; a somnambulist, a sleepwalker.
noctambulism noun = NOCTAMBULATION M19.
noctambulo noun, pl. -o(e)s, -ones, = NOCTAMBULIST E17-M18.